News/Press Releases
Check Out Legal Eagle’s Spring 2024 Issue
The Legal Eagle’s spring 2024 issue contains articles on artificial intelligence, whether misinformation on social media is protected free speech, and violence at youth sporting events. A PDF of the...
Nonprofits Receive Grants for Summer Law Associates
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation is providing grant funding to eight New Jersey-based nonprofit organizations to fund summer law associates. This program provides an opportunity for law students...
NJSBF Funds Law School Clinics
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation has awarded more than $6.4 million in multi-year grants to fund new and existing law school clinics at Seton Hall Law School and Rutgers Law Schools in both...
Check Out Winter 2024 Edition of Respect, NJSBF’s Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter
Respect’s winter 2024 issue contains articles on affirmative action, gender-affirming care bans and caste discrimination. A PDF of the winter issue can be downloaded or individual articles can be...
Nonprofits Awarded Grant Funding
Three New Jersey nonprofit organizations received grants from the New Jersey State Bar Foundation to fund a post-graduate law fellow who will work with the organization on public interest legal...
Impact 2023 – NJSBF Makes A Difference
Every year, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation reaches thousands through mock trial competitions, educator trainings and law-related conferences. In 2023, the Foundation saw the expansion of its...
Check Out Legal Eagle’s Special Social Media Edition
The Legal Eagle’s winter 2024 is a Special Social Media Edition and contains articles on social media bans for kids under 13, banning Tik Tok, and information literacy. A PDF of the Legal Eagle's...
Check Out the Latest from The Informed Citizen, NJSBF’s Civics Blog
When the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787 it took at least 30 seconds to load a musket. Could the framers of the Constitution have envisioned automatic weapons? In a time when writing daily...
Grant Program for Nonprofits Expanded
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation has expanded its support for nonprofits in the state to include grant funding for law students and new lawyers to work in a public interest setting. In addition...
Check Out the Latest from The Informed Citizen, NJSBF’s civics blog
The United States government is a system of checks and balances. The Founders designed it that way so that no one branch—executive, legislative or judicial—has more power than another. In June 2023,...
Check Out Fall 2023 Edition of Respect, NJSBF’s Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter
Respect’s fall issue contains articles on racial gerrymandering, Native American adoptions and banning the hijab. A PDF of the fall issue can be downloaded or individual articles can be read and...
Check Out Fall 2023 Issue of Legal Eagle
The Legal Eagle’s fall issue contains articles on Ticketmaster price gouging, 17-year-olds voting in NJ primaries, and loosening child labor laws. A PDF of the Legal Eagle's fall 2023 issue can be...